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HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy.

Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth - Page 222
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 218 pages
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The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of ...

James Blair Leishman - 1962 - 302 pages

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The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of ...

James Blair Leishman - 1962 - 298 pages

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Selected Works

Edward FitzGerald - 1963 - 782 pages

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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1964 - 650 pages

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The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, Volume 2

1842 - 330 pages

...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life swecte, If man were wise to sce't, Hut only melancholy ; Oh, sweftest melancholy! Welcome folded nrms,...

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